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Smacked in the Face & other High School Memories
Posted by Stillthinking • 9/25/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: fiction, geeks, high school sucks
When I was 14 years old and all of 85 pounds soaking wet, I was punched in the face by one of the varsity football players in my high school.
It was a delightful experience that I of course fictionalized, serialized and published on my blog.
www.unefilleamericaine.com/2009/09/25/winnifredjones_chp1/
So, I absolutely would like you to visit and leave loads of comments on my blog.
But, I guess I should have some discussion questions for you:
1. Who were you in high school? Geek, nerd, jock, basket case, punk...
2. Were you ever beat up, get into a fight, or beat someone else up?
3. Have you changed a lot since high school?
To answer these questions for myself:
1. I was a theater geek who would go around the hallways singing to myself.
2. I was (as stated above) punched in the face by a varsity football player twice my size.
3. Yes, I have changed a lot since high school. I am not nearly as smart as I used to be though I dress a lot better now.
User Comments
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Sorry. I mean. That is not funny. How tragic.
1. Jock, cool kid, prom (ok homecoming) king
2. Nope
3. A little-
Why am I not surprised?
Homecoming king, huh. Well, that's not so bad as Homecoming king usually is not a total d-bag, unlike prom king. -
Prom King was my best friend.
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I stand by my statement...
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It's not not true
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Ok, fine. Your best friend wasn't a total d-bag. Was he nice to geeks?
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I think you read it wrong.
It's not, not true. -
Bahahahaha!
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Yup lol
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Were you nice to geeks?
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I was the same to every one.
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How to interpret that...
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That is a good question
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Actually, DB. Other than threatening to throw me into the Colorado river and ostentatiously leaving me off your hot list, you have always been pretty nice to most people on BC.
I think those devil horns are just for show. -
that's not a threat. You will be in the water. I hope you can swim
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I think if I fell in the Colorado river, no amount of swimming ability is going to make a difference as my hapless body is dashed against the raging river torrents.
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How about, I make sure it's at the beginning or end so you don't get bashed up against rocks and such?
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You mean in the tranquil part of the Colorado River, where imminent death isn't a possibility?
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Yes. Unless there is a rare Coloradian gator...
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Or perhaps a Fresh water Bull shark?
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Perhaps.
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Don't think I won't drag you into the water with me.
Hmm, then I'll be the hot Asian girl in soaking wet clothes, but I don't think cold water is so good for guys. "Shrinkage" -
If you take me in with you the entire raft will flip.
Shrinkage only matters if you are naked, I'd be more worried about your nipples -
Don't care. If I'm getting dunked, so is everyone else.
Keep your eyes and hands off my nipples. -
Ms Carpitt might not like taking a swim
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Ms. Carpitt will forgive me as she adores me.
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But will Anok? TSR? CA? Gtally? I dont think so...
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They like me better than they like you. If you toss me overboard, they will toss you in right after me, without tipping the raft.
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They will just look and laugh. and then say Im an a-hole
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That actually could be what happens. *looks thoughful*
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Indeed.
At least this thread is more popular than the 6pack thread now... -
My American Gothic thread has been number one for 3 days now. That's how dead the discussion boards have been.
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You're right... That IS bad
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Also, when they're aren't enough good discussions going on, these Shameless Blog Promotions are dismal failures. Not one person has clicked through to my blog...
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Maybe if you participated in the other discussions we wouldn't find this as spam. You only show up to promote your blog. You're making Timmy feel uncomfortable.
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No, I don't really feel much like participating in other discussions anymore. I'm sorry if you feel like this is spam, but I'm just not interested in popping up every discussion on this board anymore.
I will still support my friends' Shameless Blog Promotions, but that's about it.
Timmy has got the Lords of the Underworld to back him up. He will be just fine. -
Im not saying I believe that. But others might
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Bah!
Oh well, I don't have the power of mind control and quite frankly, don't really care what certain "others" may think. Especially after they behave like retarded middle schoolers and start social networking site based harassment. -
For craps sake the whole BC shebang is about promoting one's blog. If people are not here promoting their blog, or getting tips on blogging what the flying arse are they doing here? No real friends? -
hehe!
I have friends. My friends love me. Of course, they don't love me as much as they love their jobs, babies, spouses and mortgages. All reasons why I don't see them as much anymore
*sigh*
I do agree that BC is mainly for blog promotion.
While I get quite a few readers from BC, I have seen a major jump in referrals from Twitter and Facebook and a serious decline from BC. So, I don't know what that says about BC right now. -
I'm with you. I'm a blogger promoting my blog and contributing to the community.
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I was a jock, but also was almost at the top of my class. Then I went to an Ivy League school at which point I lost all bragging rights for nerdism, graduated with a B average.
I got into zero fights outside of sports and family, meaning there was a coach or parent to break it up. However, around 7th grade one of my classmates' big sisters punched me in the face one afternoon knocking me off my bike. She is still totally embarrassed about that 25 years later.
Changed? Yep. In high school, I didn't drink b/c it was illegal and b/c I hated the taste of beer. Now I do a beer review site, what can I say?-
Very impressive.
Actually, I will say that quite a few of the jocks at my school were also very, very smart. Got good grades, weren't stereotypically "jockish".
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I have started a series of my favorites, so I'll tell you the first "Good Stuff" favorite beer. It is a beer brewed by Lagunitas Brewing in California called Hop Stoopid. There have been 3 more favorite reviews since then, and I plan a bunch more.
That being said, many awesome breweries are super small and can't produce enough for every state. That and some ancient Prohibition laws still make it hard to get the beers you want everywhere. So I surely have not ever sampled thousands of beers. -
So, you might be the beer equivalent of a sommelier. Can you match your favorite beers to your favorite foods?
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Nah. I prefer to refer to my blog as a sarcastic storytelling site, but I do a beer review too. I pair beer with another beer and rarely talk about food. You'll need to talk to the cooking asshole for that, who, by the way, did a guest review on my site yesterday.
For me, sommelier = snobby, at least on the surface. I do appreciate their knowledge, and actually took a wine tasting class in college. So those dudes are great, but I don't want to be beer sommelier. -
There is actually a pizzeria on the South Side of Chicago that makes a microbrew called "Pizza Beer." It's beer that is flavored to taste like pizza.
As disgusting as it may sound, it was reviewed on a news program the other day and everyone they talked to absolutely loved it!
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How awful!
We don't really have the same vicious "Survival of the fittest" system you guys seem to have but I suppose if I had to fit myself into your system I would have been a "cool sporty artist"
Still if you had gone to my school I would have been hitting on you in a different way (Asian girls mmmmm)-
I doubt you would have been hitting on me at 14 when my glasses were bigger than my face and my boobs were distinctly concave.
No such thing as a cool sporty artist, but there is a subcategory for sexual deviants in the punk category. You would be the lavender aardvark with safety pins stuck into your nipples. -
No actually I have a thing for geek girls so I probably would have. My gf is an uber geek! (She is an oxbridge educated research chemist, you don't get geekier!)
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Ooh, then you would have loved the geeky 14 year old me. I probably would have had a crush on you and stammered incessantly in your presence.
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Mmmmm Yeah I would have enjoyed that! I do enjoy a woman who is grateful and respectful of the sexual power inherent in my...sexual....nesss....ibility.
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Mmmmm Yeah I would have enjoyed that!
I do enjoy a woman who is grateful and respectful of the sexual power inherent in my...sexual....nesss....ibility. -
So true, you had to say it twice.
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I said it twice for the benefit of the people who like reading whatever I say and of course BC'S deaf members (But mostly my deaf brothers!!! I am hearing your pai.....I'm with you!)
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I find everything you say to be powder covered goodness and delicious like a nutty bar.
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We call it super califragilisticanintastic.
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Expiallidocious is taking it a little bit too far, aardvark. BlogCatalog does not stand for that kind of profanity.
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Nerd.
No was big and good at rugby and used this to "legally" beat up tormentors as teachers shouted encouragement.
Nope.
Actually someone did punch polybore in the face once in the street. It was such a surprise that polybore kept on walking. Polybore felt pretty bad about it because at the time it was unexplained and the surprise factor meant polybore was unable to retaliate. In retrospect though the guy had a free punch and caused insignificant damage, what a sap.
Years later it transpired that it was because polybore had, in a spontaneous advert inspired moment, had rushed into a flower shop and given this chaps girlfriend a large bunch of flowers as she walked past in the street, polybore did not know her so did not know she had a boy friend. No doubt she had told her friends and somehow he had found out.-
Well, then you deserved to get punched in the face for such a spontaneous display of romantic and chivalrous behavior. Did the girlfriend leave her thug of a boyfriend?
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It is as far as that story goes, polybore moved on. The punching is just a footnote really. The memory of giving the flowers, while deafened by the surge of thumping blood, is best left unspoiled.
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It actually is a pretty good story. I know if that had happened to me (the flowers, not the punching part) I would have been pretty happy and excited.
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Polybore. You're like Jimmy in that awesome Seinfeld episode referring to yourself in third person. www.tv.com/seinfeld/the-jimmy/episode/2345/summary.html
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If Jimmy was a sexy Scott.
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She was. Actually there is more to the story. At a party some time later she appeared from left field and kissed polybore passionately before disappearing into the throng. We did not speak.
Polybore could easily find out what happened to her or could speculate but sometimes... -
That is actually a really great codicil to the story!
I love moments like that. For New Years, I am going to show up and randomly kiss some man. Seems like everyone else is doing it. -
Welcome to Scotland. That is pretty much the norm here. Heck once polybore kissed a guy at Hogmanay, had to run away from him later, because as enlightened as polybore may be polybore is definitely hetro.
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Really? With tongue? I need to spend more time in Scotland as I probably need a snog.
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Ok you are now inside the shall we say altered brain of the polybore. It is Hogmanay, kiss the girls shake the guys hands.
Kiss, kiss, shake, kiss, shake, shake, kiss... polybore knows this guy is gay, just a moment just a moment, kiss the gay guy.
That would be fine if that was that. But the gay guy fell in love with polybore after one kiss on the lips and ditched his partner. Polybore at this stage should have said "look, know you are gay, but it is New Year don't read so much into it, polybore is hetrosexual". Instead polybore literally made some excuse and ran away. -
Polybore, now I am dying to see what you look like if you can strike a man down with pure unadulterated love based on one kiss.
We already know that Polybore's voice can strike lust into any woman who ventures across a recording of it.
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1. I was the band-nerd. Also, the leader of a very selected group of friends that consisted of 20% of my classroom which then earn me being voted the most hated girl of my generation. I learned about the distinction years after we got out of school. Fortunately we got ripped off of our money for the year book so it never got published. I never thought of myself as popular but I guess everyone else knew who I was, jajajajaja
2. No
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That is an awful vote, but it sounds to me like a lot of people actually liked you and it was a jealous few who tried to tear you down.
You're really not that different from high school? I have changed so much since high school that if I went back for my reunion, I doubt anyone would recognize me. I walk differently, carry myself with more confidence, and I just LOOK different now.
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Maybe, I never knew who had the idea of that poll. Another girl in my group of friends was the runner-up, jajajaja.
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B-tches. Well, you ended up getting the upper hand in that one, didn't you? You're a graduate student with a bright future and just think, they're probably waitresses at Hooters or someplace like that.
What fries with your chicken wings, Mister? -
Hooter girls can make near 200 a night...
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But Deray could win a Nobel prize for whatever scientific field she's studying... What Hooter girl can say that?
Of course, with my current employment situation, I shouldn't scoff at the Hooter girls. -
Really, I don't think I have changed that much, other than the obvious change in look from girl to woman.
This was me as a sophomore:
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They have wingsday...
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You look so cute! This is actually such a good picture!
This one time, at band camp... -
jajajaja we didn't have band camp in Mexico but, one time when we had a bus accident...jajajaja
Actually, most of the girls that I know what happened to them, outside of my group of friends, are married with kids, most of them didn't finish college. Only 2 of close friends went for a graduate degree. I'm the only one pursuing a PhD, so, yeah, f*&&^ them! jajajajajaja -
Heck yeah Deray! You're going to be PhD! That is a huge, impressive, crazy cool accomplishment!
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Woohoo! you are applying to grad school? where?
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All over the country. I am going to apply to a few schools in New York, a couple in California, a couple in Wisconsin, a couple here in Illinois, and one in St. Louis.
I am applying to architecture programs and writing programs. I figured that somewhere there is a graduate school that will take me for something.
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I'm sure you'll get in a few programs no-problem
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Not yet, it is offered every single day, all year long, so I can sign up and take it whenever I feel ready. I am supposedly studying for it right now, but I keep getting distracted with other stuff.
New blog, new articles for blog, book clubs, friends having babies, sociopaths. -
"Bus accident"
such a stereotype... oops, my bad
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I was a kind of quiet non-conformist who tended to hang out with people who thought they were non-conformist as well, like Punks and the like.
I didn't have much trouble with dipsh~ts. One time in weight-training class a wrestling little weirdo was like "ya wanna fight" and I was like "not here, I'm not getting suspended. But I'll meet you at Tam-O-Shanter park after school (Tam-o-Shanter Park was adjacent to the school grounds) and he was like "n'kay"
The little bihatch never showed. So the next day I asked why, and he's like "I had wrestling practice." Poser
Another time a guy that I didn't know very well farted on my head as I was changing for Gym. Later that day, I saw him coming out of the restroom and stopping to talk to someone inside, as i was about to go in. I laid my shoulder into his chest and knocked him up against a garbage can. He came at me wielding his three-ring-binder like an 8 year old little girl, and asked "ya wanna fight?" I started to smirk at his rediculous aproach and he walked off muttering something about going to class or something. lmao-
bahahahahaha!
Somehow, I can picture you as a punk *ss kid. I also picture you as being HUGE, the guy who people are afraid to mess with.
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I'm about 5'10", but I was an early bloomer, and looked old for my age. I also was pretty buff back then, despite a rather light frame.
I wasn't actually a punk. I just refused to follow popular fashion, and cut my hair short like i do now so I didn't have to do anything to it... and wore sandals almost year round. I usually only wore shoes when the weather was really bad. -
hahaha! I really can just picture you! But somehow, I also think you were probably the guy who was generally nice to pretty much everyone.
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this is true. I got along with just about everyone, but i didn't really run with the crowd per se.
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As I was home schooled and was only compelled to attend one year of high school in the public school system, I'm not able to answer your questions. I liked the curriculum and most of the teachers I had in that year. I did not like the vast and overwhelming majority of the students I met. They were "hormonal" and focused on romance. I was years younger than they were and focused on getting honors marks and getting into college. I graduated from highschool at age 14 and commenced college at age 15.
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Oh, I remember you mentioned that to me before. So, let me pose the question this way:
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YIKES! I would have to think about that for a long time before I could even begin to formulate and answer.
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I know with me, I would have to say that since high school, I am ALOT more patient. I am also kinder.
I was a whiny little b*tch in high school. -
you weren't perhaps a hall monitor were you, ST?
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I was a theater geek and a total basket case! When I wasn't depressed or crying, I was really arty, so I was the girl who won all the art competitions at school. -
I've been thinking about this and I came back to comment. I was a loner during my 1 year stint in the huge highschool in the big, ugly city. Although I kept to myself it was not because I was shy. I have never been shy. I simply had zero interest in make-up, hairstyling, clothes and giggling about jocks.
I did make several friends and we formed a study group. The members (7 of us) were all academically, artistically and musically inclined. We all had honors grades and were called "brains" by other kids, whom we ignored. One of the teachers sort of "adopted" us and we became a small theater troupe that had a great time reading plays and acting out scenes together.
I never saw those kids again and I can't say that I'm particularly interested in looking them up, though I do wish them well. -
I was considered a brain, but I was a really lazy brain. I was more interested in my art and pretty much coasted through my other classes. I really had no desire to look up friends from high school, but FB came along and suddenly I was in touch with dozens of people I didn't know well.
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I was a decent student, but never studied (though I did pay attention in class--cause why not? I'm stuck there anyway). I got by on my ability to test well, and BS my way through papers
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I also got good grades without trying very hard. I tested really well, and my papers were always pretty well written.
Calculus was my downfall though. I hated Calculus.
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1. I was an inbetweener in school, I wagged it, got in trouble in class a lot, but wasn't cool enough for the coolest one, or slutty enough to be a popular girl. I got away with being naughty because I was somewhat clever and also played the 'sick mum' card, basically I was obnoxious to the teachers.
2. I got in one fight, I won. Nobody messed with me really, because I had a full set of put downs and I once said to someone that they could probably beat me up, but one day I would wait for them in a dark alley and stab them.
3. I haven't changed a lot since high school, still same sense of humour but I am a lot happier with who I am. I hated school and all the bollocks that goes with it.
My two sisters were prefects and all the teachers loved them, middle child syndrome strikes again.-
I totally believe you Claire.
Wait for them in a dark alley and stab them. Bahahahaha! Most excellent. At least I know that when I get to meet you, I will be the safest girl in London as you will most certainly protect me from the nasties. -
I was all talk, but obviously the menace worked in that case
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I would have been scared of you. Especially as I am comically short while you are a giantess...
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lol yes the height worked for me, although I was a streak of piss back then
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High school sucks balls...You couldn't pay me to go back
1) I was popular I guess...but it was such a small school that everyone knew eachother. There was one black person and one asian person, the rest all white. My school oozed with diversity.
2)I'm a girl so I avoided physical fights, not that chics don't get into fights. Have you seen youtube lately?...verbal fights on the other hand, I'm sure I got into a couple.
3)Well I hope I've changed...if I was still begging older people to buy me booze there would be problems.-
I would agree about not being able to pay me to go back. I am Asian, so I was definitely part of a small minority in my mostly white high school.
I never got into a fight per se, but I did get punched for no reason what so ever by a total stranger. -
omg actually that reminds me...I got punched in the face in typing class by a guy...I said something that he didn't like. Can't remember for the life of me what it was. People found out he punched a girl and all hell broke loose. He left the school a month later. Pretty awful. How did I forget all about that??? Maybe because it's been 16 years...I'm getting senile in my old age hehe
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See, nothing happened to the guy who punched me. I never really understood it. I was 14 at the time and weighed maybe 85 pounds? He was one of the football players and was HUGE. You would think people would freak out the tiniest bit that he was punching little girls.
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That's absolutely insane!! I can't beleive that noone did anything???
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I never reported it and I was in total shock that it happened at all. But, an entire hallway full of people saw it happen and there were no consequences at all for the guy.
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That's really awful and shame on them for watching and doing nothing. aah the joys of being young and powerless...see that's why you could never pay me to be a teen again. You pull that shit on an adult and you land yourself in jail. Why it's okay for a teen or adolescent to get hit by peers just blows the mind...
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I know, right? Hehe. Thank god people grow up eventually, but I have a feeling that sociopaths who punch little girls are still sociopaths today who probably beat their wives.
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oh gosh...so true!!! It's all to make up for their fragile egos and small %$&#s anyways....oops did I just say that? hehhe
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It's ok, you don't have to mask out dicks. I say it all the time.
Dick. He's got a little dick. He has a huge ego and a little dick. He beats up women to make up for his total lack of dick.
Say it, it will make you feel better! -
hahah thanks you have freed me from dick censorship...no more shall I mask this wondrous word. Dick, dick, dick! Little dicks, big dicks, strange dicks, bully dicks, nice dicks...dicks...aaah that feels better lol
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Excellent. It's okay to say dick.
It is not okay to say f***, *ss, B*tch, or Sh**.
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hahaha but can I say them all together as one word fuckassbitchshit?
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Well if you want a story. We have the year, the football team, the school, a Scottish hitman and nothing to stop us from tracking this guy down.
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oooh this has the makings of a real whodunnit....
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Excellent. You got a Walter PPK and an Aston Martin too?
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Oh James, you devil.
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You can have that guys head on a plate any time. Not a course of action polybore would recommend but it is a thought.
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I will put that in my back pocket though.
A Scottish assassin is very handy to have in my corner. I don't need his head on a plate, though. It would be rather bloody and traumatic.
I am pretty sure that his bad karma came back to get him.
"For a vegetarian, you're an f-in evil shot."
Awesome, one of my favorite scenes. -
Polybore sheaths claymore with a look of regret.
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bahahahahaha!
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1. Class clown. Individualist. Totally oblivious to the world around me. Preoccupied only with my own happiness.
2. One fight in high school. I won.
3. I've changed, but none of the things mentioned in number one have changed.-
Hmmm, I was also preoccupied with my own happiness, but they called me a narcissist not an individualist.
Being totally oblivious to the world around you is not quite true. Or else you would not have such an amazing collection of aphorisms. -
I should've said the social world of rules and expectations. Not the natural (physical) world.
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Oh I can see that.
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Hmmm... I was also an individualist.
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Me too! And it wasn't even for me.. I was sticking up for me baby brudder!
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1. the loner
2. i have been in a few
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You're a loner with that adorable smile and cute face?
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I'm doubtful too. Good to see you around here Sir
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I know, he never comes around anymore. It's truly delightful.
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well i am back for the next couple of hours
i was in fact the biggest loner, mind you i was one of the most "famous" or better yet infamous students there
i am still approached by people (younger and older) i don't recognise in the slightest come and talk to me as if they lived next door to me. so many years have passed XD -
Interesting. So your natural good looks and charm attracted people to you even though you preferred to keep your own company in some dark corner.
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actually, thats exactly it
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not so much the good looks and charm, but everything else ^^
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Hmmm, it's the James Dean effect. He hated everyone but everyone loved him.
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hahahaha i don't hate everyone, i like everyone
i just feel socially awkward, i don't really fit in anywhere
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You're shy? I can't imagine that, but then again, our only interaction has been here on the forum.
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I used to be that way, but as I got older, I started opening up more to people. When I was a teenager and in my twenties, I was much more closed off.
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but i overcome that by knowing a lot of people
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Well, that is a solution. You can't really be a loner when you're very, very popular.
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it is rather difficult, but i still get my own time to do things by myself
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I'm actually still an introvert and NEED time alone. If I don't get time alone, then I get really, really crabby.
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Me too. I'm an INFJ or INTJ - I swing between the two. Being with too many people for too long drains the energy and joy right out of me.
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The testing I have done says I am an INTJ, but just BARELY an Introvert and BARELY a Thinking personality. Depending on the mood I am in, I can come up as an ENFJ.
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i did a test to find that out a little while ago, i can't remember what i was
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It actually is a really interesting test. I have been asking my friend's father (who is an actual, accredited administrator for the test which is hundreds of questions long) to let me take the actual version, because I get so many different results when I take abbreviated versions.
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maybe i should an abbreviated one now ^^
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You should!
www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes1.htm
Take the Jung Myers-Brigg one.
Holy Moses! I just took the abbreviated one and got a result I have never gotten before.
ESFJ
Slightly Extroverted (1), Sensing (1), Feeling (11) and Judging (38) -
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Introverted 44 Intuitive 12 Feeling 25 Perceiving 22 -
You're a very rare personality type...actually one of the most rare personality types. Very, very interesting.
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Does that sound accurate?
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more or less ... yeah
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I get different results pretty much every single time I take the test except that I always come up Judging. I think it's because I am borderline on every single trait.
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do you change your answers depending on how you feel on the day
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Well, that is why I want to take the full test. The full test is hundreds of questions long and any inconsistency due to your mood that day are accounted for. That way, you should get the same result every single time.
But, I have also been told that people can change somewhat over the course of their lives. Especially if you're right on the cusp of several traits like I am.
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I am soooooo sorry to hear your situation ST - that stinks.
I had Chad Demmon from Coronado stab me with a pencil on my elbow (wenis area) - and totally wished I could have stabbed him back... LOL! But he was the pretty boy in elementary.
I also had Ralph King from Coronado choke me - I still have nightmares about that - and hope that he regrets it to this day.
For some reason - I was hated in Elementary School - but that all changed in Middle school and High School - I have no clue what the difference was - Cause I certainly didn't do anything different.
Here's your answers tho
1. Who were you in high school? Geek, nerd, jock, basket case, punk...
In High School - I was Everything and yet nothing. Everyone knew me - but I didn't make myself one of anything - I joined everyone and fit into every crowd.
I was fairly popular - and enjoyed being around people. I wasn't a stoner - but hung around them - I wasn't a geek - but hung around them - wasn't in band or cheerleading or anything like that - but hung around all of them.
I liked people - and people generally liked me. I was voted to be most likely to be married to my high school sweetheart and most likely to succeed... Interesting - Didn't marry the sweetheart - and have varying degrees of success in my pocket.
2. Were you ever beat up, get into a fight, or beat someone else up?
In Elementary - I outlined those things above. I did get in fights - but after I won the first one - no one messed with me that way. I don't even remember what it was over - but it was the TOUGHEST girl in school - and I did win. She was VERY BIG - Very Black (in that East Coast TOUGH way) and really wanted to kill me... LOL!
But I did grow up in group homes at that point in my life - so some people may have thought I was tougher than I was.
I can fight - especially if I get angry enough - but MOSTLY I never liked to hurt people - so unless I was defending someone else - I rarely got into scuffles.
3. Have you changed a lot since high school?
Yes and NO. I mean - I am ME - I will ALWAYS be me... My perspectives on some things have changed - But I never treated folks like dirt - and I still don't. I don't like to be treated like dirt - and didn't then.
I'm always going to be me --- then and now.
Only difference is the things I've seen and done - which grants me insight into things I might not have understood then.-
None of this surprises me about you WW as you get along with pretty much everyone here too, UNTIL THEY PISS YOU OFF!
Even then, you try to see the best in people.
I think it's clear in the way you respond to threads and to people that you have a lot of experience dealing with different personality types and that you have a great deal of emotional maturity.
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Awwww - thank you.
You too.
Yah - I'm a pit bull one you've made me mad or if I believe someone is being treated badly. -
I'm much better at walking away. I'm not a confrontation person.
After I decided to leave BC, then I found myself missing it and then I had the new blog. So, here I am doing Shameless Blog Promotions. -
I really should start promoting my gambling blog... Sigh... I could use the promotion right now.
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Well, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Honestly, with 147 responses on this thread, I have only gotten 11 visitors today.
*comical sound of balloon deflating*
I know, pathetic.
These Shameless Blog promotions don't do a whole lot of good. I'm actually at a loss as to a better way of doing it, considering that a personal blog doesn't really lend itself naturally to SEO.
I guess I just have to hope that people just start visiting and bookmarking it as much as possible and sharing with friends. -
I accidentally stabbed someone with a pencil once, in seventh grade. He waited months, until I'd forgotten all about it, and then nailed me in the knee. I still have a grey mark there , lo these twenty-some years later. -
Ouch, can we say petty?
I still have a scar on my hand from getting swiped with an exacto blade that was sticking out from someone's bag as they passed by. -
I'm pretty sure my dad still has a tiny hole in his leg from walking into my bag with the spike for my compass sticking out of it. That was, unfortunately, not the last time I left my things lying around the house.
Who came up with that torture device, anyway? You can't bring an ice pick to school, but it's okay if it holds a tiny pencil and makes circles. -
Hehe, I remember a compass was on our school supplies list every single year, but I think that entire time, the only time I actually used one was sophomore year in Geometry for about a 2 week period.
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*bump* ^_^
Still!! I didn't had the chance yesterday to read and comment on your new post!!
Hmm only 11 visitors huh? These shameless promotion things aren't really working huh? *sighs*
Well, I'm off to read your post! I'll be back!-
I'm back! I loved the post!
To answer your questions:
1. I didn't really belong in a group, but I could fit in every one of them. I usually got along with everyone. They gave me nicknames, like cutie, Pocahontas, Puar. Yes usually it was cartoon related. I was always the youngest, had long hair and was quite small (till a certain age). So everyone thought it was cute. Well I didn't find it cute, but I just let it slide. Saying something about it, just made it even more cute in their eyes -_-''.
2. Nope. Never.
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Pocahontas? Where did you go to high school?
Oh, you mean the Disney cartoon.
I thought it was a tiny bit odd that they were comparing you to an Native American princess who interceded to save an English explorer from death, then became of symbol for English oppression in the New World when that Englishman more or less kidnapped her and forced her into marriage.
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Hahaha yes Disney. And it was more the looks and not so the history. It would be a bit odd indeed :|
Since I always was the youngest in the class, I held back a lot, was shy and looked younger than I already was. I thought that I wasn't as smart as all the others, the older ones. Now I realize that age doesn't really matter. I was as smart as the others and often they came to me for advice or extra explanation. It was all in the mind I guess. I still can be shy though haha. -
I was shy too, but I got over it as I got older.
I always looked young for my age too, even now I still look very young. I usually get mistaken for a college student in her early 20's, but honestly? I'm not complaining! It's great to look young! -
Yes, you're right about that! It gets less when I get older.
Haha looking young has its advantages indeed ^_^!
That reminds me of something; here in Holland, they recently changed the rules and up till twenty years old, they can ask for an ID when you want to buy cigarettes or alcohol. I had to buy cigarettes for my mom and they asked for my ID. At first I was like :|...but after wards it was kinda funny. -
I get carded regularly. I just turned 33 (I'm so old!) and I feel ridiculously pleased whenever anyone asks me if I am still in school or cards me.
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I get carded all the time too! Just last week I got a beer at the grocery store and the cashier looked at me and said: are you really old enough to buy alcohol? looking at me with one eyebrow lifted up and his voice sounded like he was talking to a kid caught doing something wrong, jajajaja. I said: yes, thank you! jajajajaja
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Still! You're not old!
Haha Deray, they always have this typical voice and expression, don't they? -
I am OLD!
But I look young and believe me, there are so many people my age who look so old. -
Therefore embrace the fact you look young and feel young ^_^
But I kinda know what you mean. I'm 23 (almost 24!!)and most of the time people think I'm 18-20. But I see a lot of people around me who are my age, but look much older, they act much older as well. Maybe this also plays a part. I don't know.
Just be happy that you look young! No one will guess your age, unless you tell them hehe. -
Oh, you're so young! Haha! How old is Deray? I am guessing 25? 26?
I forget how many young people are on here. -
the whippersnappers
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How old are you, gnome?
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31 in human years
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haha. I don't know how old Deray is though. I also thought around my age.
Whaha Whippersnappers ^_^. -
Thanks ladies! jajajaja I'm also 31, like the gnome, jajajajaja.
A lot of people that get to know me at the university think I'm an undergrad, they are very shocked when I tell them I'm a grad student, jajajaja. -
You are all old. Please stop stealing all my social security, thanks.
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Also 31! I thought most were around my age!
DB...really -_-'' -
Well, until 3 weeks ago, I was 32, so I don't want to think I am 2 years older than everyone here.
Please tell me that the gnome and Deray are both 77's and not 78's.
TJ, you're just very mature for your age. Unlike DB. -
march of 78, here
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Actually, at my age, I am allowed to be immature.
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*grumbles*
DB, you're 21? 22? Youngster. -
I'm somewhere between 20 and 25
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Late eighties children. *grumbles more*
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I'm 77 ST! I'll be 32 in November
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maybe they heard too much Def Leppard while in the womb
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Pfft, how weird would it be to be a kid born in the 2000's? It makes me feel old.
My dads in a band, so I have heard plenty of rock n roll. From the womb to now. I'm surprised I can hear at all. -
Uh oh Still, grumbling can cause wrinkles. Especially if you pair it up with squinted eyes. Not good.
DB - That sounds cool! My dad was in a band, although not rock& roll ^_^ -
my kids were born in the 2000's
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Doesn't that make you feel old?
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yes. thanks for mentioning it
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Don't worry, my dads 50. How do you think he feels
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my dad will turn 70 next year...
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My nephew is turning 20 in a couple of days, that really makes me feel old! jajajajaja
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Damn... You are old
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I know what you mean Deray. My wife had these little kid cousins when we got married. Now the oldest is like 6'6"!
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Shut up DB! 30's are the new 20's
Yes gnome, mi nephew is taller than me and I still call him "mi niño"= my boy, jajajajajja -
and 20's are the new teens : D
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30's are the new 20's because all the people who were 20, turned 30
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Dear god, I don't want to re-live my twenties! The first half was awful. Can I just start back at 27 or so?
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I wouldn't redo any of it.
Being in my thirties is WAY better than my twenties, aside from the unemployment.
But even the unemployment, aside from having no money, isn't so bad. I mean, I got to go to Paris for 5 days. That's a pretty darn cool thing to do when you lose your job... -
grrr. so envious
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It was the most spontaneous, irresponsible thing I have ever done. I loved every minute of it!
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how did you turn in you job search sheets from Paris? Or do they only do that crap here in WA?
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*raises right hand*
I'm young! :-P at heart...lol-
ha! That is all that matters, isn't it?
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1. Who were you in high school? Geek, nerd, jock, basket case, punk...
We don't have these stereotypes here. Students have to wear uniforms all throughout school life, and the usual way to find out who they were was by getting to know them. Also, most schools here have all kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school levels, so it's possible to spend one's entire school life at the same place (that's either a good thing or a terrible thing).
I was a loner for most of my school life, and I my grades were excellent up until the beginning of fifth grade, when I was in a different (worse) school. But I wouldn't think of myself (back then) as a nerd, or a geek.
It was only in the last three years that I became a bit more open. In the very last year, we all sort of managed to get along, and I was the one who made lots of jokes (good and bad).
2. Were you ever beat up, get into a fight, or beat someone else up?
In the high school levels, nah. I avoided the bigger crowds. I had a small group of friends that I would hang out with during recess, and stayed close to avoid the younger/older annoyances that were all around.
3. Have you changed a lot since high school?
I've changed little. I still look and behave the same way, and would rather spend my time alone.-
Friday, aren't you still pretty young? I thought high school wasn't that long ago for you. Also, where are you from?
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I'm from the Dominican Republic.
High school ended in 2005 for me. I'm close finishing college. -
Ah! I have heard the Dominican Republic is so beautiful! Are you studying photography in college? Are you in a Dominican university?
Sorry, if I am being so nosy. I am curious about a lot of people here. -
It is pretty, if you stay near the beaches and resorts
I'm studying graphic design at a nearby college. It being close by is perhaps the only reason I'm there, as I was pushed into it and wasn't interested what universities here have to offer. -
Have you gotten to travel much?
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Outside the island (which we share with Haiti, or Haiti shares with us), not really.
I've only been to Haiti for about 30 minutes (we crossed the border on a school trip), and to the U.S. about four times, the last of which was in 1998. -
I know you've shown quite a few of your photographs on here. Are you interested in being a freelance photographer?
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I have shown them here, yes.
As for freelancing as a photographer, it isn't something that interests me. It's a hobby, and perhaps a dying one. -
I'm happy we got to chat a little bit. You were one of the members here I always found interesting, but didn't really get a chance to talk to.
Well, I am exhausted. I am heading off to bed.
Night folks! -
Me? Interesting? Let's not get crazy, now
I'm enjoying your story a lot.
(Good night!)
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1. Who were you in high school? Geek, nerd, jock, basket case, punk...
I was a cheerleader for a couple of years, but I didn't hang out with the cheerleader crowd. I had my own group of friends and we hung out. I wasn't into the drinking (alcoholic family members) or drug scenes. I had tons of friends and got along with everyone. I hated my picture taken so I avoided the cameras or made sure I had my back to them in just about all photos taken. I loved school, but the family needed money so I quit my final year to get a job (got my GED and college degrees later).
2. Were you ever beat up, get into a fight, or beat someone else up?
I was always picked on by a group of girls and their boyfriends,(being a cheerleader, some just hate you no matter what you do). But never really fought with anyone until my little 5'3...85 pound self was jumped when getting off a school buss by a group of people, because I was trying to protect my little brother.. (To this day I don't know why... he's still mouthy lol!) I won tho! (I may have been small but look out... I had 7 brothers and sisters and learned how to take care of myself) Broke my glasses... But I WON.. and nobody ever bothered me again!
3. Have you changed a lot since high school?
Yes! I have gotten older and wiser, and discovered what used to matter to me back then.. I have learned really isn't that important after all! And to this day nobody messes with me.. "flexes feeble muscles" lol... (I think it may have to do with the 6'5" 300 lb man standing next to me!) -
That is awesome that a little girl (like me) beat the cr*p out of someone in protection of your brother! Honestly, I don't think I would have jumped to my brother's defense!
It was very self-less of you to give up school for your family, but I am so very glad that you got to pursue your education later on.
I am in the process of applying to graduate school, and it is nerve wracking!
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1. Who were you in high school? Geek, nerd, jock, basket case, punk...
i was one of them there dark people that all the christer's thought was a satanist...hahaha, catholic school is so much fun when you're an atheist.
2. Were you ever beat up, get into a fight, or beat someone else up?
unfortunately i had this jackass send a roll of tape flying across the room...beaned me right in the temple. i walked over to him, grabbed him by he shirt and nearly hit him...nearly. sense came back to me after i heard my photo class friend Theresa tell me not to do it, that it wasn't worth it. that was a lovely day...
(had i of beat the little bastard up, he would have had to deal with the teasing associated with getting beaten up by a girl.)
3. Have you changed a lot since high school?
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ha! Why did he throw a roll of tape at you?
I was such a pain in the ass when I was in high school. All I ever did was whine, cry, complain and then run off to the dark room to put all those intense feelings into my photographs and then write bad poetry.
I am very glad I am different now from high school.
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That dumb-ass should have gotten a taste of his own medicine for punching a tiny girl in the face. Where I come from, he would probably be "swimming with the fishes" for that.
1.)Multi-genre. Mixed in all crowds. Prom King
2.)I had been in a few scraps while in school. Always came out on top. Did get sucker punched by a guy trying to defend his buddy while I was setting him straight for harassing a girl that was with us. They both paid dearly for their errors.
3.) I look almost exactly the same except for the grey hairs starting to pop out of my goatee.-
hahahaha! Why am I not surprised you were Prom King?
The day I got punched in the face was totally surreal. To this day, I'm not entirely sure what happened or why no one beat the crap out of him for hitting me. In fact, my high school was so messed up, I swear I have a memory of people laughing when it happened.
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